I didn’t get very far into it (been meaning to start a proper session). That’s really too bad, it did seem like the game was well made.

I am big fan of abstract constructs (hunger/ thirst meter) in games. I am all for experimentation, but in terms of UI/UX, different for the sake of being different isn’t always a good (and I say this as a person who is opinionated about UI/UX and will simply not play games if they have a console UI).

I’ve played this for about ~4 hours. It’s a fun experience. It does have some flaws, but the foundation is great.

Team Fortress 2 Classified is a pretty good name for their project.

Really looking forward to this and the UT2004 revival!

I think there is still a market for a “mid-core” type experience and honestly the core structure of Planetbase is very polished.

Even 10 years later, the game still has ~300 CCUs (so likely about 2K+ MAUs assuming an average session is 3-4 hours), a decent achievement for what is arguably a niche indie game:

https://steamdb.info/app/403190/charts/#3y

Tbh I preferred their website more, gave me the option to read it at my own pace, and focus on the parts I care most about, not fiddle with forward and rewind on YT, and having to pause to look at the charts in more detail and peace from the cosntant commentary track.

That’s exactly why I prefer written articles, they are more concise and quicker to process. That being said, when I do watch GN videos I do find their sarcastic style to be entertaining.

Oh man, this is such good news.

UT99 is fine. I played it so much in the early 2000s, would put on Offspring albums while playing with bots; we had dialup and I couldn’t play with EU, let alone US. But UT2004 is IMO much better and allows for different styles of play.

I just hope the community will be big enough. A lot of the retro FPS games servers are dominated by people who have been playing for 20+ years and its difficult to get into them (even if you played the games a lot back in the day).

Agreed, this is pretty annoying for me personally.

I don’t even mind ML generated art in certain contexts if there is disclosure.

I honestly couldn’t tell that from the video that the art is ML gen based and I feel like I have a relatively well developed sense for both LLM output and ML gen’d images.

How did you guess? :)

I know, most of their content isn’t published in text form though.

I understand. This is a forum, so I am not going to add expansive footnotes to my posts, but I am happy to cite the research I have read if asked. FWIW, I have also read counter argument for approaches used by the research I have cited (which I don’t find convincing).

Just pointing out that I am not randomly making stuff up.

I love GN for what they do, but I just can’t get into the video format for tech hardware news or reviews.

For some topics, I totally understand the strength of the video format, but for others it just doesn’t make sense to me. A review is much quicker to process with commentary text and relevant charts for benchmarking. I would argue the same for less in-depth news and analysis.

I also wish GN had a peetrube channel!

IMO, programming automation is a good fit for this community. The concepts are similar and Fedi is pretty small.

I am aware how it’s spelt. Typo on mobile. :)

Touche good sir/ma’am!

I am showing my age here, but it seems that boomer in context of slang means old person if you are in your 20s or earlier.

I would love a management/tycoon game where you build out black mesa and have to take care of your scientists and guards.

It was all right. It was fun to try something new.

I was more into RPGs and strategy games even back then.

I remember playing Jill of the Jungle in early 1997, it was on one of those “100 in 1” pirate CD that were common around the time the CD-ROM was introduced (became somewhat common in my region).

That same pirate compilation had Commander Keen, Dune 2 and many other games.

Baseline research on support for the fullscale invasion:

https://www.levada.ru/en/2024/05/17/conflict-with-ukraine-assesments-for-march-2024/

The level of support for the Russian armed forces has not changed significantly since the beginning of the conflict – the majority of respondents (76%) support the actions of Russian troops in Ukraine, including 48% “definitely support” and another 28% “rather support” the action of Russian army. 16% are against.

Research with preference falsification adjustments with respect to support for the full scale invasion:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20531680221108328

when asked directly, 71% of respondents support [full scale invasion of Ukraine], while this share drops to 61% when using the list experiment

Support for annexation of Crimea:

https://www.levada.ru/en/2021/05/19/crimea-3/

The vast majority of Russians (86%) consistently support the accession of Crimea to Russia – this indicator has fluctuated slightly since 2014. 9% do not support the accession.

Research with preference falsification adjustments with respect to support for annexation of Crimea:

https://www.jiia.or.jp/en/column/2022/09/russia-fy2022-01.html

Using the list-experiment technique, Timothy Frye and others showed that Putin’s approval rating after the annexation of Crimea was actually high, at around 80%. In their study, they made a list of famous Russian politicians and had respondents answer how many of these politicians they supported. They then estimated Putin’s approval rating by adding the name “Putin” to the list for only one group[*]3 and thus concluded that the high approval ratings after the annexation of Crimea were not very different from the findings of opinion pollsters.

A high level overview of russian support for the invasion of Ukraine (a summary, but with links to relevant research, albeit some sources will be in russian):

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/russia-tomorrow/reluctant-consensus-war-and-russias-public-opinion/

Younger people still support the war in high numbers, though their support is lower than that of the older generation: 75–80 percent of people fifty-five and older support the Russian army’s actions in Ukraine, while 61 percent of young respondents in Levada polls share this sentiment.